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lLgX ^DER H. STEPHENS, Proprietor HATCH or ICBKRIPTION. r . n v_permnnm 98 Ot- Dia Half >'»«y *«■ QUA-frly.—• -2 0<i Monthly IT. T-P* r »“ nnBa - — 9* 0*1 gj. A u fetter* of • hurts®** chsnotor thonld b«i ttii***^ *° JAMES I. MILLER, Bniiva Mmimpr. "'^ p PbBTOS , S AKHEAIi fOR 1179 Tbi* most valuable work baa joat been jjjued from the press. Oar copy reached • few flays ago, arid as yet we ba* time to give only a cursoiy glance at the leading topics embraced in it. This aat jeflee us. however, that it is folly equal in iLtere6t to any of its predecessors. Tb>s work is an annnal continuation of Appleton’s Xetc American Cylopo>di». Xhe present ‘number reaches the 12th volume. It chronicles all the important aod leading events of the year 1872, in tbia an<- all countries, bet-de* embodying an immense am unt of valuable statistics io Agriculture, M«nufactures, Religion and Politics, as well as in every depart ment of Art and Science. We bave been a regular subscriber to this work ever since it was started, and take pleasure in recommending it ape cially to the attention of our re iders. Vi e regard it as tne I eat work of the kind ever published in this country, (or any other) which Las come under our ooaer vation. It is indispensable in any pub* ho library, and no person who can spare the means to obtain it, should oe with oat it Mi. F. H. Btoy, cornet of Marietta SDd Broad streets, in Atlanta, is the agent, not only for th s, but several other very rare publications of the Ap pletous. A. 6. 8. THE WEEKLY SUN. VOL. IV, NO. 41 ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1873. { WHOLl-yl II B > »ou B C Any book, claiming to be history ceases to be history the moment sectional preju dices or prejudices of any kind, are allow ed to pervert facts in its pages to suit those orejadioes. This Mr. Stephens has scrupulously avoided. As the b&ok be comes more extensively circulated and known, the more popular it wi'l become. It only needs “pushing” to give it a place in every school and family in the land. "THE 8A11UNAL CENTENNIAL AND THE PHILADELPHIA •■KI9b n . It appears that no project can be put on foot by the Federal Government, wherein large expenditures of the public funds are ,to be made, that is not ma nipulated by “rings” of some sort. The interests of the United Statu.- at tne Vi enna Exposition have been abased and the conDtry scandalized oy those entrust ed with them. Now, we learn from the Indiana Stale Journal, that the great National Centennial has fallen into the hands of a Philadelphia ring. Ui.'ier the act of March 5, 1871, enti tled "An net to provide for celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of Amer ican Independence, by bolding an int r- natioiibl exhibition of arts, iuunufactur s. and products o. the soil and mines, in the city of Philu«iel| hi* and (State of Penn sylvania, in the year eighteen hundred aud severity-six,” one David M. Boyd, Jr., who is not a citizen or resident ot theStiOe of Indians, t ut a resident ol the B'au 1 of Pennsylvania, has been ap pointed commissioner ftr the State ol Indiana. The law expressly provides “that a commission, to consist ol not more than one delegate from each State, ^otc., shall be constituted,” uud further ueoLres “that iu the same mamer there | shall be appointed one Commissioner from euch State, etc.” These tacts being called to the atten tion of Gov. Hendricks, Lea* oncecalled the attention of the President to them, aud r«cum utnoed tne appointment of Franklin C. John on, of New Albany, us a proper i eison to represent India: a in tne Commission. The recommendation was n atlily accepted by the President and the appointment mude. It is charged thut tuc 1\ uusylvania Central Railroad Company is one of the influences iu the “ring,” and it is also stated thut Mi. Boyd is a ticxet agent of that company. The objt ct, as it would seem to be, to turn the National Centennial to the best account for the Pennsylvania Central and tho city of Philadelphia ut the ex pense of the Federal and State govern ments. So, when Mr. Johnson, with the Presi dent’s commission in his pocket, pre sented himself before the executive com mittee of ihe centennial body, and, alter B pretended discus hod, he was rejected SB the representative of Indiana, and Mr. Boyd retained instead; aud “the ‘ring’ deliberately,” says tne Indiana State Jour nal, “heM in the place, in defiance of the law, loo President’s appointment, and the desire of Indiana. This indi cates plainly the plan upon which this so-called National Anniversary is to be earn. d cut. It means thaw the different States are to be taxed to pay the enor mons grant asked of Congress. Ti at is to say, Indiana is to pay her proportion of the millions which Philadelphia ex pends in building herself up. But In diana is not alone in this plight Geor gia is repr> seated in ihe same way, and it ia not yet ascertained yet how many more States are thus swindled out of representation by this Philadelphia fraud.” As it is the purpose to ask the next Congress for an appropriation of $2,000,- 000, i would be well enough for earr and every State to look into this matter and Bee that it is properly repit- sented t>v good oitixens of its own. Two millions to be expended is • “fat take” for the Philadelphians, and the forma tion of a “ring” to grasp it is in perfect accord with the corruptness of the times. SIK. STEPHENS' SCHOOL HISTORY. This new school history is gradually winning its way to popular 'avor. It only nee da to be known to be properly ap preciated, ia the verdict that comes from every quarter where it is introduced, as well N« rth as South. The following letter from Kentucky received by the The Sen has not been *-*en by Mr. Stephens, md we publish it with muc:i pleasure as a wot thy tribute to the great merits ot the book: Blastdvilla, Ballard Co.. Ky.. Jana », UT*. Editors Sun:—At our County Teachers Institute, last year, a oommittee was so- pointed to examine the various authors of school histories of |the United States, and report to the Institute this year the oest history for our school. Oar Insti tute re-assembled last week, and, after a lengthy discussion of the merits of the various authors, Mr. Stephana’,History was almost unanimously adopted—sub ject,however, to the approval of the State Board of Education. As a member of the aforesaid commit tee, I examined six histories. Four of of them were compared by periods and topics; L e., the settlement of one colo ny was read, aa given by history No. 1 then the same colony, as given in Nos. 2, 3 and 4; then the histones Noa. 1, 2, 3 and 4 were successively examined on the first year of the revolution; then all successively examined on the aeoond year of said war, etc.; then I compared them all on Washington’s administra tion, uefore reading anything, in any of them, about the seooLd administration and then I compared them all on Adams’ administration — and so through the books. I have no hesitation in saying that bave seen no school history of the United States, other than Mr. Stephens’, that deserves the name of United States His tory, as to the events which have trans pired, or the ideas under which the gov ernment bas been administered, eiooe the adoption ot the Constitution to the present time. Northern writers have infused very little of the “philoeophy of history” into their histories. They, courting the pat ronage of both sections (North and South!, have omitted many facts and controling principles and ideas, which they deemed obnoxious to one or the other of the sections, thereby emasculating their works, and leaving in the mind of the reader only dry facts, unconnected and unassociated with the ideas and causes which produced them. Yet, with all their omissions, these Northern his torians have not wholly discarded their -ectional prejudices; but, in their infer I euces and generalizing, (assisted by a few facts colored with partisan views), j ther books impress toe miud of thereader with the idea that the North has always been more conservative and more en lightened than the South; and that the Southern people have always been a hot headed jealous people, responsible for most of the discords, caiing little for the Union, aud only anxious to maintain the ascendency of their particul r views in the administration of government, and in the war between the States just enough of the causes which ltd to the war, and of the manner of conducting it, are omitted, to put the South in a most, un just, untrue light. Mr. Stephens, in writing his history, set ms to bave been mainly intent upon givmg the leading facts and events as they occurred, with the causes aud conflicting idtas out of whicu they grew, aud to have left the popularity of the book to take care of itself. There is a completeness, unity and harmony in Mr. Stephens’ history, not to be found in any other history that I have seen. His style is chaste, easy, perspicuous and for cible, sometimes eloquent—that of a mas ter dealing with a familiar and loved subject. There is but one thing which I would add to Mr. Stephens’ history for our schools, to-wit: maps, illustrative of the early settlements and colonial times. In treating of questions and ideas which have been sources of strife be tween the different parties or sections, Mr. Stephens has not obtruded his views upon the reader, but he has, in almost every instance, illustrated the topio with quotations taken from the records of C< mgreea. or of the Supreme Court. No history ignores these questions, and SOUTHERN POSTAL SERVICE. One result of the Postmaster Generals recent visits to the South will probably be an inert aae of the postal-car service. Mr. Creswell has instructed his second istant, Golonel Routt, to direct Mr. C. French, superintendent of railway service for the Sooth, to Confer with cer tain leading railways for the extension of this service, in aooordanoe with the pro visions of the act of March 3d last The lines included are those between Atlanta and New Orleans, by way of West Point, Montgomery and Me bile ; between Lou isville and Memphis; between Louisville and Cincinnati, by way of Covington; be tween Nashville and Ch&ttauooga. The cars are to be forty feet long, and the service single daily. The mails are to be adjusted on the basis of weights taken after Jane 80,1863, upon tbe terms pre scribed in the act of March last Thb Suez Canal.—From the traffic re turns of the Suez Canal it appears that in eleven months of 1872-73 572 vessels passed through, against 258 in the pre ceding twelve months, while the tonnage inoreas ; ng at a still larger rate—674,818 tons, against 293,362 ions. This gives to the short oat twenty-four per cent of all the tonnage passing between India and Europe and America. Enterprising capitalists should not fail to note in these facts the golden promise of profit to tbe undertaking which shall shorten by thou sands of miles the ocean voyage between New York and the shores of the Paciffic, and bring an equa torial American oanal route into compe tition with that of Suez for the prize ot the Indian trade. The Polaris Investigation. Secretary Robeson was at the navy yard, Washington, D. C, Saturday morning, with Commodore Reynolds, to hear the statement of Esquimaux Joe and others Irom the Polaris. Prolessor Baird, of the Smithsonian Institute, takes part in the investigation, the re sult of which will be made known by the Secretary of the Navy next wee... The Washington Star says: “ Tli6 investigation thus far has de veloped the fact to the satisfaction of Secretary Robe?on and those acting with him that Capt iin Hail died a natu ral death, and that the separation of the Polaris from Captain Tyson, and his party was purely accidental. This fact is es tablished by some very strong circum- | stautiul evidence, not the least impor taut point being this: that the party with Captain Tyson had all the remaking boats of the Polaris, and if it had been the intention of those on the vessel to forsake Tyson’s party, the boats would not bave been left with them, thus de priving the vt ssel cf its greatest neces sity. Captain Tyson and Esquimaux Joe both testified to the fact that Captain Ha l was sick two weeks before his death, and was unconscious most of tbe time. After the death of Captain Hall the discipline of tbe Polaris was not so good, but noth ing that might be considered a mutiny occurred. After his death all ideas of the expedition were abandoned, and the vessel was headed homeward. “Tbe Frolie, with the Polaris party on oard, is still lying off the navy yard, and, under ordets from the Secretary of the Navy, no one is allowed to communi cate with tne officers or crew of the ves sel, nor are the latter permitted to hold communication with any one on shore. The testimonv before the informal court of inquiry, of which Secretary Robeson is the head, is taken down in short-liand by a stenographer.” A dispatch from Washington to the New York Herald says: “It was true that Captain Hall did compluia, and did ac cuse those undei him of attempting to take his life. He made a conndant of every one who watched by his bedside dariug the two weess of his sickness pre ceding his death. But ail this time he was delirious. Joe, the Esquimaux, was one the last who attended Captain HalL To him he said he Delieved he had been poisoned. He had sa ; d the same thing to others, and complained at length to each one who watched with him of his suspicion generally until he died.” CLIFFORD THOU I I A GEORGIA 8TOBT. By Maiu Jovxdab Wmt- M0AZL4>D. author of “Heart Hungry." Hov Tors: O. W. Caxlktox A Co., publUhurs. We have just risen from a perusal of this recent work, and most confess to a decided disappointment in regard to its chancier and value. The various criti cisms we have read of the book led cs to form erroneous estimates of its merits. Some of these critical notices have lauded Clifford Troup to the stars—have been fall of f alsome eulogy of its fair author aod Uer literary labors; whilst another class of so-caln d critics have indulged in of fensive personalities, and have evinoeu a vicious determination to reduce it to the lowest discount iu the republic of letters. Now, we apprehend that die truth here, as in all cases, lies between ex tremes. Clifford Troup possesses no claims to the highest rank in its class of litera ture. Compered with tbe writings of Soott, Bulwer, Thackeray, and some of the later English novelists. It nay be viewed as rather an ordinary production!; but then we insist that there are thousands of novels which have challenged the highest com mendations of critioi and reviewers, and achieved a national reputation, which are far inferior to this in artistic skill, dramatic power, ethical value and teal belles-lettres accomplishm-nta. All ad verse criticism to the contrary, we are constrained to regard this as one of tbe most readable books of the times. It is s highly entertaining tk ry from thl be ginning to the end. L The style of the book is simple and full ot pathos. Ther-. is no straining here for lofty words and sentenoes, learn ed quotations, the oanons of French sociology, aLd the crotchets of German philosophy. The sesquipedal ian against which Horace so sarcastically remonstrates, finds no place in tnis per formance. Tne transparent clearness of the author’s own mind is reflected from every page as from a limpid lake, and the generous throbbings of hor sympa thetic heart are felt in every line. There are passages of word-painting here which charm tho imagination, and there are el oquent bursts of iudignatiou which arouse all the seusibiiities i f the soul. It is no smail merit of this novel that it is a spring of pure English undefiled. II. The moral tone and teachings of the book are uuexoeptiouable. Clifford Troup iB the true representative of tnat large class of aristocratic gentrv, the leading article of whose creed is: “Money auswereth all things,” and the sacrifice which the sou made in marry ing, to gratify the sordid wishes of his father, is no strange occurrence in the best society; and tbe disastrous conse quences which followed are just what we might have expected to ensue from a mere venal union. This book, therefore, is an eloquent protest against mercenary matches, one of the greatest social evils of the age. ' It teaches the wholesome Bible doctrine that ought to be thunder ed through the world—that the institu tion of marriage rests upon the uflec tions and that to attempt to place it on any other basis is to fill the laud with crimes and curses. III. Mrs. Wistmoreland is a Southern lady, and therefore deserves the sympa thy aud support of her owu section. She is a Georgia woman, and her own people ought to feel proud of her past labors iu the world of letters. And though her composition be marked by some minor, and perhaps a few major faults, still, in stead of magnifying these imperfections, and seeking, by words of bitterness and intolerance, to drive her from the field of authorship, she ought to be encour aged to cultivate tne higher learning, and to study the models oi tne masters of the age -. That Mrs. W. possesses talents of a higu ord°r none but a foe or a fool will deny, and with the proper encourage ment her vigorous and polished pen is destined to w ild a much wider aid mop healthful influence in the cauoe of edu cation and religion. One of the greatest needs of the South is a native literature, and this will never be attained till she is more rue aud faithful to her noble sons and daughters woo are toiling brave y against many discouragements in the broad field ot literature. Th« OMrgls City by the Sew. Sr. Mast’s, Qa., Jane 8, 187X Editors Sun : As I sit in the cool of the shade in the fresh sea breeze by the window, I glance over a grand aud charming scenery with the white crested waves of the cce&n in view, wasting tbtir fury on the shore* of Amelia Island in Florida, and Cum berland Island in Georgia. In a southeasterly direction, within easy view, sits the beautiful Liana City, Fernandina, with the spires of her temples reaching toward Heaven, and the whited sails of her shipping rep resenting prosperity. Her train of cars is just crossing tne draw-bridge, which nnites the main land vith the Rates cf Advertising. Skouiab ABTKXiimaxT* will be ineertwl el om per lyurf of tea lloee oi Honperell for the flr*t tne'-rtion, end fifty orate per eqaer" for recti ‘ it our. liberal dedecticae will be made (er eOTertiee- ■arata TauBioif longer then oar week. . | Local, B Him end Sfkcial notice* wUl be ln< >er*d opoa rtbtonable lor me. HuUeeo In tre compialee half the oeoel retea. BOR THE A KELLY. | All adverttaemeota Inserted .n the Weekly Edition- will be chargee one dollar per square lor every In sertion. 7 The annual meeting of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Texas, convened at Houston on the 5th inst The fiscal year of the Mobile and Gt- , ,, . rard railroad c nded on the 3lst of May. be accurate ot oomplete that 1 books show that the real has trail«- surely the 1 ported during the twelve months 20,911 records of the government are of higher bales of cotton, of which 17,861 have aushority than any private individual’s version* of them. Again tbe in troduction of said record in treat- iug these questions neipe both the teacher and pnpil to rightly constroe and understand the construction of our government. John D. Wilds. Nothing would be more foreign to Mr. Stephens’ nature than to pervert the facte of history to popularize any thing ho writes. Hie whole aim in the prodnotion of his School History was to give the “ truth of history,” thst the true b story of this oountry might be known trnthlully. Heuoe the book under no tice meets the approval of all fair-minded and noneet men in both sections of tho country. topped in Columbus and 3,950 went tl rough. For the preceding year 12,798 bales was transported over tbe road, of which 11,616 were for Columbus ware houses and 2,182 passed through. This showB an increase of 1872-3 over 1871 aod 1872, in the total of 7,113 bales—6,- 245 in Columbus receipts and 868 in in through shipments.—Col. Sun. Post Tills Up. CHANGES AFTER JUNE 30, 1870. 1. —Franking privilege abolished. 2. —Postmasters supplied with official stamps. 3. —Official stamps must not be used except for official business. 4. —Stamp of one department cannot be used for correspondence of another. 5. —No matter can pass through the mails free. 6. —Postage must be collected on news papers published in the county where delivered. 7. —Exchanges not free. Publishers must pay postage on each exchange re ceived. 8. —Postal cards uncalled for are not sent to dead letter office. 9. —Postal cards cannot be need a sec ond time. 10. —Ordinary cards can be transmit ted through the mails by affixing one cent stamp, provided tne entire message is printed. Tbe address may be written. POSTAGE. BQr-Prof. Daniel Draper, Director of the Central Pork Meteorological Ooaerv. - tory, New York, vivas it as his opin.on, j based on ex f t-mted ootm> orisons from 1836 to 18 2 that the clearing of land has no effec’ on the volume of rain-fi 11. There ere amt stubborn facts against bis theory, although it is now receiving strong support from European meteoro logists. Letters.—Three cents for each half ounce or fraction thereof. Drop Letters.— Where delivered by carriers, two cents for each half ounce or traction thereof. At other offioea, one cent for each half ounce or fraction thereof. Printed Matter.—One cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof. Seed.-, bulbs, cuttings, roots, scions, chromes and engravings are classed with primed master. _ Merchandise.—Two oerts for each two ounces r-r fraction thereof, limited to twelve ounces. When any of the aoove matter ia mailed wholly unpaid, aud by inadvertence, reaches its d stinatiou, double rates should be charged md col lected.—Post Office Oazette. Island; and the smoke from her lum ber mills rises as clouds to pass away under the clear bine sky. The land intervening between this and that city presents a prairie-like appearance, and composed of pecu liarly fotmed islands, divided by the St. Mary’s, Amelia and other rivers, and with the exception of a clump of bnshes here and there, is covered with a rich, luxuriant, green and tender S rass, which is delicious ’ood for cat- e and horses, which can be seen grazing on the portions near each city. Sea birds, ol various hues, forms and sizes, are constantly hover ing around the broad, blue waters, or winging from stream to stream at the harsh scream of the great blue heron. Fort Clinch, with her nseless, brist ling, rusting guns, can be seen on the northern end of the island, and the white sea beach, covered with many beantifnl shells, glistens and dazzles in the noonday’s sunshine. The tower containing the light to warn the mariner of danger is perfectly white, and stands as firm as the pyr amids of Egypt. It contains a large revolving light, and often have i sat in the darkness ot night and watched that beautiful, brilliant light as il would come and go, and often have I thought of man, who, like the light, comes, flashes and goes. About half way between my seat and the ocean, 1 s?e a small clump of bushes on the fc?t. Mary’s river, which mark the spot where once stood a wooden United States fort, at a place called “ Point Peter,” which was cap tured in the war of 1812, by the Brit ish landing from Her Majesty’s man- of-war. It is related that the Ameri can commander, named Messiah, made such good time in tramping his hasty retreat down the Peninsula in search of the thickets, that grass has never covered the path made at that time. His understandings, each, were said to be fourteen inches long. When he desired to have a new pair ot boots made, he did not. follow the universal custom of going in at the d >or to make the bargain, but would put his nose in at the window, and fail to exhibit the solid foun dation which supported such a cour ageous personage on the afore-men- tioued retreat, when his paddles were so actively and successfully handled. On the shell-bauk near this old fort, a number of duels were fought in olden time, when such an amuse ment wa3 quite as fashionable as profitless of good. Sometimes good and brave men have allowed them selves to be sacrificed upon this hor rid altar, simply because a foolish idea of pride and courage overcame their best judgment, and they yielded to the demands of blood and barbar ism in a civilized and Christian country. It will be so to the end, but this iashionable past-time is fortu nately on the wane, at least in por tions of Georgia. A few miles further down, Cum berland beach, covered by a back ground of rich green growth, presents a picturesque scenery. The solid sands along tne sound, tne river and the ocean, are splendidly suited for carriage drives, and a good place for sea-bathing. A snort distance from the south point of the island can be seen what remains of the fine and stately residence at Dungeness. It is there in the shade of a grove of un surpassing beauty that tbe remains of “Light-Horse Harry Lee,” the father of Gen. R. E. Lee, rests in peace. Gen. Lee visited the sp it with a lovely daughter of his, a short time before the augel of death, came to call tbe spirit of the son to visit the spirit of the father in the abodes of the celestiaL The fame of each will pass to all future generations as bring among the greatest and noblest chifmpions of liberty, who feared not to enter the thickest of tbe battle in detense of tbe rights of man. They fought not for fame nor lucie,but fame came as the result of wonderful achieve ments against great odds. The center of the scent ry is cov ered by the broad blue ocean, sublime either in tempest or in calm. As I pause aud gaze I behold a ship at sea under full sail in the distance, ap- CONDEiVSED NEW8. Georgia Item*. The Savannah cotton market is on tbe advance. The cotton crops in Pulaski county are reported to be very grassy. The Gainesville postoffice has been a made money order office. Business is improving and increas ing at Washington.^' *^The health of Fort Valley is re- marsahly good. Savannah has a juvenile hook and ladder company. The Macou Enterprise wants a- competent local reporter.} TCTIT Trap is now entrapping the unsuspicious fly of Thomaston. The Macou bar gave a dinner to Judge H. V. Johnson iu that city yesterday. A lodge of ihe Knights of Pythias is to be organized in Gainesville at no distant day. The adjourned term of Hall Supe rior Court will convene on Monday next. The criminal docket of Muscogee Superior Court will be taken up next Monday. Preparations are being made to begin the erection of a Presbyterian church in Elberton. The first through ^shipment from the Mississippi Valley to Tort Royal passed tnrough Augusta on Thurs day. All the papers in the State having heard from Nashville recently, are calling for a general cleaning up of dirty streets. The recent and continued heavy rains had quite a serious effect upon the planting interests of Southwest ern Georgia. The White Sulphur Spriugs of Meriwether county are opened, and bid fair to do a flourishing business this summer. Crops along the railroad between Albany and Thomasville, are in a better condition than they have been for years, at this season. The oat crop yielded abundantly in that, section. Col. W. A. McDougal, of Colum bus. on Wednesday, in Augusta, sold hi3 trotting bay mare, Rady Emma, to Mr. Jack Chambers and Mr. Hag- gie, a livery man in Augusta, ior two thousand dollars. The Savannah News says that it is hardly probable that the rumor published by the Chronicle and Sen tinel to the effect that Mr. Win. M. Wadley had resigned th Presidency of the Central Railroad is correct. Jllicellaiuoui Items. It cost the Bank of England £70,- 000 to bring the forger Macdonnell to justice. A motion to expel the Jesuits from Italy was rejected in the Italian. Parliament. The Baroness de Coppens dTIous- clioote, tne last surviving sister of Lamartine, is dead. The Galveston News thinks that the work of the recent Texas legis lature will be generally satisfactory. The movement in behalf of a State Convention of farmers has been com menced in Richland county, Oli o. It will be v gorously urged. A. T. Stewart, of New York, is so far recovered in health as to travel short distances, hut has not yet at tempted to resume business hours. Ex-Governor Henry S. Foote, former United States Senator from Mississippi, and a meniber of the Confederate Congress, has taken up his residence at Washington City. Mr. Fred. Hassaurek, the German editor of Cincinnati, is prominently mentioned as the Liberal and Demo cratic candidate for Lieutenant-Gov ernor on the State ticket. The Turkish Commission on the Suez Canal question is about to pub lish its report. This commission must not be confounded with tbe International Commission to which the maritime poi\ era of Europe are party. The Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention has decided to retain in the article on the Legislature the provision for bienniel elections of Representatives, and the section making the terms of Senators four years. The Hon. Joseph Medill, of Chi cago, has written a letter to the com mittee in the Ohio Constitutional Convention which has the question' of proportional representation under advisement concerning the workings- of minority representation in Illinois. He is of the opinion that the princi ple is practicable and salutary. Tbe Republicans of tbe New Hampshire Legislature have the fol lowing n*'ruinations of tne State offi • cers to be elected to-morrow: Secre tary bt State, B. F. Piescott, ol Con proaching the entrance between the j com; State Treasurer, Solon A. Car two islands, soon to be safely anchor-1 ter, \ f Keene;* Commissary-General ed with furled sails in a harbor of i Charles W. Montgomery, of Stafford l and for State Printer, Edward A Jenks, of Concord.^ safety from the wind. storm or the whirl- . Lycubgua